So yes, the Halifax Mooseheads handily defeated the Lewiston Maineiacs by a score of 7-3. The rumours are all true. The Mooseheads are now within 5 points of a playoff spot.
In case my busy work schedule never gives me a chance to blog again - cookies go to Alex Lemieux for feeling the need to follow the puck into the net...on his bum. Managing to get a whole human boy past the goaltender has to count for something. I would prefer if it counted for two goals. That now makes it an 8-3 Mooseheads win - hopefully the QMJHL website updates its stats accordingly. Not only that but both Lemieux and Gelinas each have three goals in their past three games. It was a big weekend boys- congrats.
Actually it was a big weekend overall since the team managed 15 goals (+1 human goal) in three games. That is a lot of boys getting a lot of goals.
As for Corbeil and I, every game our love grows. It is just like that "with every step, love grows" pendant from Charm diamond Centre (or Zales). If he is not careful I will buy him one. Mathieu Corbeil has been ensconced in ahmazing. Oh, I know it looks like a blue snuggie (to match the pendant), but that is what ahmazingness looks like. Corbs now has a 3.25 GAA and 0.897 save % in 25 games. I know those numbers don't seem awesome, but it is all relative - considering the team and considering the start they had to the season.
While the team is now awesome, I can't say the same for some of the people who sit around me. Even when the team was winning 7-1 (sadly, not the final score) they could still find something to complain about. When someone is carrying the puck they should be shooting it or passing it. When someone is passing it they should be carrying it or shooting it. Carrying it is considered too fancy but passing it is considered too risky. All activities should lead to immediate shooting, irrespective of whether there is an opening in the net or a guy there to get the rebound. If you are reading this and thinking that it sounds bizarre - you are right. Now ask yourself: "Am I highly irrational while watching hockey games"? If so, the solution is to keep your mouth shut. You are just annoying those who sit around you.
...and then there was the guy sitting in front of me complaining about Yetman. I was wondering if I could trephinate him with my high heeled shoe. Don't EVER fuck with my goalies.
I hate being surrounded by so much negativity.
NEWS:
Moose roll to 7-3 win
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
About last night: Redux
Pre game
Big changes are happening in the lives of anyboy who ever put on a Mooseheads jersey (well, not peg-legs who sits behind me).
Yesterday the Mooseheads announced that they traded veteran defenceman Alexandre Brunet to the Rouyn Noranda Huskies for a 5th round pick in 2011. Poor Brunet, he never even got cookies. At best, all I could offer him was the little package of travel oreos I snagged at the vaccination clinic on Tuesday. It's what was in my purse.
Best of luck in Rouyn Mr Brunet. I am sorry this has to happen and totally disrupt your life. Such is life in the child slave-labor organization known as the CHL. You will be in good company, though, since both Gabe O'Connor and the 'other' Yeti can now be your new friends.
...then there were 3 Truro Moosecats:
Former Moosehead and twenty year old "sniper" (don't laugh) Yuri Cheremetiev was released by the Bathurst Titan after only 13 games with the team. In those 13 games Yuri had only 1 goal and 1 assist for a total of 4 goals and 5 assists in 27 games between the two teams. This was supposed to be Yuri's best year EVAH, since he spent the summer getting buff and even spent some time in Russia trying out for the KHL (to which he was drafted). Sometimes there is a huge difference between what the newspaper reporters and Cam Russell tell us, and reality.
Yuri will be joining former Mooseheads 20 year olds Ben MacAskill (who makes reading sexy) and Eric Louis-Seize (who makes decapitation sexy) on the MJAHL's Truro Bearcats. Because Yuri could not stick with the Titan until January, the Mooseheads will be ...*mumbles* something, something lost draft picks. I told him not to screw us like this and then he went and did it. Pffft, that's so Yuri of him.
With the loss of Cheremetiev, and now Brunet, the Mooseheads are now down to ONE twenty year old - Linden BahmSquad, and only one guy named Alex (did you forget MacDonald already? Shame). I never could have imagined this scenerio.
Moose vs Gatineau:
Last night Gatineau were quick out of the gate with a goal only 8 seconds into the game. I mean, it was so quick that I wasn't even in game mode yet. I was still fidgeting and talking. It was a definite shock to he system, like a bad sugar low, and it was a terrible start to what turned out to be an excellent game.
Despite finishing off the first period down two goals the team rallied back during the second period with three goals. The first was on a long hard shot from the point by Dimitruk that went over shoulder of Tai(n)t, the second off a shot from the faceoff circle (not the middle one) by Lemieux, and last but not least Gelinas ...got a goal...somehow. You may have to swap the Lemieux and Gelinas goals. Admittedly, I don't always pay attention.
Three goals is better than two goals and the third period was a wash, therefor the Mooseheads won. Hoorah!
Clarke was playing his first game back since his knee injury. He fought; and not only did he get pummeled but had to suffer the embarrassment of an additional 10 minutes for not having his jersey tied down. Well, admittedly it may not actually be an embarrassment for him since it seems like he never ties his jersey down, but it looks bad to the rest of us when he is so liberal about getting naked in public. Really, is it that hard to do up that little button? Just ask for help from one of the guys on the team who is good at keeping secrets about your lack of buttoning dexterity.
Hannay also fought but he kept his cloths on. It would be better if he actually took his cloths off.
...and Mathieu made saves - 23 of them.
What do you want from me? Details? Pffft One save involved him being out of position but swinging his hand down in time to cover the puck as an Olympique wildly swatted away at it by the side of the net. It was a soothing end to a moment of chaos and fear. That is all I remember.
It is less than 20 minutes to the start of the next game against PEI, and I have barely had time since yesterday to put this together. No time for baking...or thinking, so I am giving Dimitruk, the game's first star, $5.00 to run out and buy himself a package of Pirate cookies. I hope he does not have a nut allergy.
Yes, eventually I will change the standings and other details in the side bar. Key word, eventually!
Big changes are happening in the lives of anyboy who ever put on a Mooseheads jersey (well, not peg-legs who sits behind me).
Yesterday the Mooseheads announced that they traded veteran defenceman Alexandre Brunet to the Rouyn Noranda Huskies for a 5th round pick in 2011. Poor Brunet, he never even got cookies. At best, all I could offer him was the little package of travel oreos I snagged at the vaccination clinic on Tuesday. It's what was in my purse.
Best of luck in Rouyn Mr Brunet. I am sorry this has to happen and totally disrupt your life. Such is life in the child slave-labor organization known as the CHL. You will be in good company, though, since both Gabe O'Connor and the 'other' Yeti can now be your new friends.
...then there were 3 Truro Moosecats:
Former Moosehead and twenty year old "sniper" (don't laugh) Yuri Cheremetiev was released by the Bathurst Titan after only 13 games with the team. In those 13 games Yuri had only 1 goal and 1 assist for a total of 4 goals and 5 assists in 27 games between the two teams. This was supposed to be Yuri's best year EVAH, since he spent the summer getting buff and even spent some time in Russia trying out for the KHL (to which he was drafted). Sometimes there is a huge difference between what the newspaper reporters and Cam Russell tell us, and reality.
Yuri will be joining former Mooseheads 20 year olds Ben MacAskill (who makes reading sexy) and Eric Louis-Seize (who makes decapitation sexy) on the MJAHL's Truro Bearcats. Because Yuri could not stick with the Titan until January, the Mooseheads will be ...*mumbles* something, something lost draft picks. I told him not to screw us like this and then he went and did it. Pffft, that's so Yuri of him.
With the loss of Cheremetiev, and now Brunet, the Mooseheads are now down to ONE twenty year old - Linden BahmSquad, and only one guy named Alex (did you forget MacDonald already? Shame). I never could have imagined this scenerio.
Moose vs Gatineau:
Last night Gatineau were quick out of the gate with a goal only 8 seconds into the game. I mean, it was so quick that I wasn't even in game mode yet. I was still fidgeting and talking. It was a definite shock to he system, like a bad sugar low, and it was a terrible start to what turned out to be an excellent game.
Despite finishing off the first period down two goals the team rallied back during the second period with three goals. The first was on a long hard shot from the point by Dimitruk that went over shoulder of Tai(n)t, the second off a shot from the faceoff circle (not the middle one) by Lemieux, and last but not least Gelinas ...got a goal...somehow. You may have to swap the Lemieux and Gelinas goals. Admittedly, I don't always pay attention.
Three goals is better than two goals and the third period was a wash, therefor the Mooseheads won. Hoorah!
Clarke was playing his first game back since his knee injury. He fought; and not only did he get pummeled but had to suffer the embarrassment of an additional 10 minutes for not having his jersey tied down. Well, admittedly it may not actually be an embarrassment for him since it seems like he never ties his jersey down, but it looks bad to the rest of us when he is so liberal about getting naked in public. Really, is it that hard to do up that little button? Just ask for help from one of the guys on the team who is good at keeping secrets about your lack of buttoning dexterity.
Hannay also fought but he kept his cloths on. It would be better if he actually took his cloths off.
...and Mathieu made saves - 23 of them.
What do you want from me? Details? Pffft One save involved him being out of position but swinging his hand down in time to cover the puck as an Olympique wildly swatted away at it by the side of the net. It was a soothing end to a moment of chaos and fear. That is all I remember.
It is less than 20 minutes to the start of the next game against PEI, and I have barely had time since yesterday to put this together. No time for baking...or thinking, so I am giving Dimitruk, the game's first star, $5.00 to run out and buy himself a package of Pirate cookies. I hope he does not have a nut allergy.
Yes, eventually I will change the standings and other details in the side bar. Key word, eventually!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
So here is the deal
I am crazy busy. No time for anything but a stream of conscious rant about how the Moose lost 4-2 to the mutherfuckin Bathurst Titan. Besides, every thing that need be said has probably already been said by the newspapers (which I haven't even had a chance to read yet):
Lineup: Titan at Mooseheads
Mooseheads lose fifth straight
Moose lose key game
May I recommend the following promotion - Turnover night. A vast amount of turnovers contributed to the Mooseheads loss. During the next "turnover night" we, the fans, can express our disappointment in a most appropriate way - by throwing turnovers on the ice whenever one of our defenceman turns over the puck in our zone. This is a punishment that is both embarrassing and delicious.
Metcalfe and Hannay are sleeping on the sofa this week...and after I designed Matcalfe that fancy "hitman" shirt. Let it be known, however, that they are not the only Moose players who deserve to be beaned upside the head with a bakery good.
like derrr:
Then there is Jessyko! I don't know how to deal. We break up, and after the initial gorging on ice cream and the self-loathing induced consumption of ketchup chips (why?), he rebounds like a lady. How do we do it? We pick up our socks, go shopping for a new dress, buy some new lipstick, change our hair, and have frequent martini nights. Now Jessyko is looking fucking great. Suddenly he is all obvious on the ice. Just imagine if that backwards backhanded shot on net had made it in. What would I do then?
Do I just let him be free and totally amazing or do I try to win him back? I clearly still have feelings. Has he not noticed the amazing Bernard shirt I designed? Look at how the 23 dots the i.
Cookies to Alex Lemieux for his intense and aggressive forecheck. Sure Randell and Amyot got the goals, Grant had two assists, and Randell walked away with stars... but ohhhhh Lemieux just kinda turned my crank.
PS. Yes dear Moose, you are cold again.
PPS. New Bety shirt at the Zazzle store.
Lineup: Titan at Mooseheads
Mooseheads lose fifth straight
Moose lose key game
May I recommend the following promotion - Turnover night. A vast amount of turnovers contributed to the Mooseheads loss. During the next "turnover night" we, the fans, can express our disappointment in a most appropriate way - by throwing turnovers on the ice whenever one of our defenceman turns over the puck in our zone. This is a punishment that is both embarrassing and delicious.
Metcalfe and Hannay are sleeping on the sofa this week...and after I designed Matcalfe that fancy "hitman" shirt. Let it be known, however, that they are not the only Moose players who deserve to be beaned upside the head with a bakery good.
like derrr:
Less than 24 hours after playing the stacked Quebec Remparts hard in a 4-2 loss, the Mooseheads lost some of their edge on Sunday. They didn’t have the same intensity as the night before and it was their undoing in a game that seemed to set up well for a win.
"I think that’s our problem a little bit, we play good against good teams and not the same against bad teams," Knotek said. "I don’t want to say that Bathurst is not good but they’re obviously not as good as Quebec so we should play better against a team like that."
Then there is Jessyko! I don't know how to deal. We break up, and after the initial gorging on ice cream and the self-loathing induced consumption of ketchup chips (why?), he rebounds like a lady. How do we do it? We pick up our socks, go shopping for a new dress, buy some new lipstick, change our hair, and have frequent martini nights. Now Jessyko is looking fucking great. Suddenly he is all obvious on the ice. Just imagine if that backwards backhanded shot on net had made it in. What would I do then?
Do I just let him be free and totally amazing or do I try to win him back? I clearly still have feelings. Has he not noticed the amazing Bernard shirt I designed? Look at how the 23 dots the i.
Cookies to Alex Lemieux for his intense and aggressive forecheck. Sure Randell and Amyot got the goals, Grant had two assists, and Randell walked away with stars... but ohhhhh Lemieux just kinda turned my crank.
PS. Yes dear Moose, you are cold again.
PPS. New Bety shirt at the Zazzle store.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Abducted
That game against Victoriaville last weekend never happened. I never wrote about it and thus it never happened. No cookies for anyone because it never happened.
Bullshit! I am nothing if not totally on the ball!
Last night the Mooseheads took on the Quebec Remparts at the Halifax Metro Centre and were defeated by a score of 4-2. The Moose had the Remparts on a tight leash until the third period when Stefanovich and Paquette were able to put two pucks past Corbeil to bring the score to 4-1. Jessyko Bernard scored for the Moose with less than 5 minutes left in the game but the Moose were unable to rally back to for a win...or less of a loss.
Points of order:
News links:
Wuest: Lineup: Remparts at Mooseheads
Wuest: Moose can't keep high-powered Remparts down
Palov: Mooseheads put up fight
Is this enough? I have work to do and I haven't even had time to exercise in a week. Stupid work.
Bullshit! I am nothing if not totally on the ball!
Last night the Mooseheads took on the Quebec Remparts at the Halifax Metro Centre and were defeated by a score of 4-2. The Moose had the Remparts on a tight leash until the third period when Stefanovich and Paquette were able to put two pucks past Corbeil to bring the score to 4-1. Jessyko Bernard scored for the Moose with less than 5 minutes left in the game but the Moose were unable to rally back to for a win...or less of a loss.
Points of order:
- 0/5 on the power play.WTF? It felt like the Moose were on a PP all night. Booo on the MF powerplay. The Remparts got one PP opportunity and they were able to take full advantage of it.
- Brunet was wearing 3. That #3 jersey is the biggest slut. It has been making its rounds through the team. It doesn't even have a nameplate...so no one knows its name. I see lots of (what look to be) little wanna-be hos at the Mooseheads game, but the # 3 jersey takes the cake. Look out Hannay, it appears to be targeting defencemen.
- I sat there and watched boys dawdle with the puck before shooting it on net. There was a failure with the quick release. Now, normally girls don't like quick release, but there are always exceptions, of which hockey is one. Jessyko displayed quick release skills on his onetimer. It got him a goal. It may also have gotten him more ice time in the last 5 minutes. Will he be stuck back on the 4th line tonight?
- I mean, look at this sexy bastard - Why did we break up again?
- Hannay is so calm and smooth and dreamy and calm and smooth and dreamy and calm. You can call it slow, I will call it calm. I like how he smiles when he is punching people in the face. You can call it sadistic, I will call it zen. Sadly, he didn't punch anyone on the face last night. Read this story.
- Lemieux fought Savoie. Unlike Jessyko's goal it was the unsatisfying kind of quick.
- Some Quebec pussy refused to fight Metcalfe.
- Carl Gelinas was the 3rd star with a goal and an assist. Lemieux brought the puck to the net and Gelinas managed to lift it up and over Gagnon amidst a flurry of chaos.
- Corbeil flashed the leather and flashed the leather and flashed the leather. Props to trapper. Rawr. He is also taking more risks to corral the puck and stop the rebounds.
- Desi fanned and fanned and fanned. Poor Desjardins.
- Knotek won 15 of 23 faceoffs. Pelletier won 6 of 7.
- I saw Garrett Clarke standing all alone, be-mohawked, be-suited and friendless. I wanted to keep him company (and fix his hair).
- Dimitruk and I had a moment in the first period when he cleared the puck out of the Moose zone, and despite resistance from the Remparts, managed to get it all the way into their zone. No one else gave me a moment like that moment (well, maybe Gillard with some defensive plays and Jessyko in the third period for coming back and looking like Jessyko and actually being visible out there) and so - cookies to Dimitruk...even though he was on the ice for that Paquette goal. Please share with Jessyko.
News links:
Wuest: Lineup: Remparts at Mooseheads
Wuest: Moose can't keep high-powered Remparts down
Palov: Mooseheads put up fight
Is this enough? I have work to do and I haven't even had time to exercise in a week. Stupid work.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Get your T-shirts!
Or not...
I have posted some early designs on Zazzle. A link to the zazzle store can be found in the sidebar. Or here.
Designs can be put on other styles of shirt for your purchasing pleasure. They tend to look best on white. I am working on an MCT design but my Corel skillz leave something to be desired.
I kinda think I made a mistake with Jessyko. I want back in. This imaginary relationship is making me bitter.
I have posted some early designs on Zazzle. A link to the zazzle store can be found in the sidebar. Or here.
Designs can be put on other styles of shirt for your purchasing pleasure. They tend to look best on white. I am working on an MCT design but my Corel skillz leave something to be desired.
I kinda think I made a mistake with Jessyko. I want back in. This imaginary relationship is making me bitter.
Short handed...empty net...crap
The mooseheads lost to the Drummondville Voltigeurs 5-3. I will technically take that as a 4-3 since the volts got their 5th on a short handed empty netter with 3 seconds remaining in the game. Just so Couturier knows....that does not officially count as a hattie. Not in my books.
I was out. All I really know is the box score.
Charles Bety and Gerrad Grant (x2) were the goal scorers for Halifax.
Moose were balls considering that this was a last place team playing an upper tier team. BALLS.
Jessyko and I have broken up. I hope he feels unburdened now.
I was out. All I really know is the box score.
Charles Bety and Gerrad Grant (x2) were the goal scorers for Halifax.
Moose were balls considering that this was a last place team playing an upper tier team. BALLS.
Jessyko and I have broken up. I hope he feels unburdened now.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Coming soon?
I have been considering designing and making player t-shirts available forever ago. I actually designed a bunch of shirts and even put them on Zazzle but never made them available to the public. Once again I have been considering it and have designed this logo in support of Konrad Abeltshauser.
Eventually I might get around to putting it on cotton and then making it available to the general public. There has got to be a way to support your favorite players that does not involve spending $140 on a customized jersey or breaking out a sharpie (teenage girl style).
Thoughts?
Just the facts
The Halifax Mooseheads took on Montreal in Montreal and came away with a point in a 4-3 shootout loss.
Lines:
Bahm, Bety, Stoddard
Randell, Knotek, Grant
Bernard, Pelletier, Desjardins
Metcalfe, Hannah
Amyot, Brunet
Dimitruk, Gillard
Costello was playing GQMF
About the Montreal JR:
Jake Allen was in nets for Mtl while my beloved David Stich was out with the flu.
Speaking of Hannay:
Is this not a face that everyones mother could love?
I think I am developing a problem. When you are 17 it is called a crush, when you are my age... it is called a problem. I think it's the joker smile. I am a sucker for joker smiles (see posts tagged Tomy Joly). I have to stay away from the CHL...or start watching the games blindfolded.The Mooseheads then got their second goal on the PP. Knotek made a pass to Randell who had come in from the point. Randell shot and the puck was deflected in by Bahm. The Moose finished the first period with a 2-0 lead.
Early in the second Corbeil was suffering from technical difficulty (an injured hand) and needed to be tended to so Grondin was put into nets. Grondin allowed a goal (on 3 shots) and was then immediately taken out of the net. Before the end of the second both Gouchie and Chouinard also scored to bring the Montreal Jr into the lead 3-2. Damn ex-Screagel. Don't say I didn't warn you!
The game went into overtime and nothing happened but it was awesome because it means that the Moose would be guaranteed 1 point. Every point is precious.
Tomas Knotek was the only Mooseheads to get a point in the shootout. Really? Randell? Whatever you say Cam!
Knotek (Hfx) – scores
Trevor Parks (Mtl) – scores
Gerrad Grant (Hfx) – save
Matthew Brenton (Mtl) - save
Carl Gelinas (Hfx) – save
Guillaume Asselin (Mtl) – save
Travis Randell (Hfx) – save
Jeremie Gouchie (Mtl) – scores
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Hannay picture screencapped from SportsandMoore.com video
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